"Jerry Parks' business philosophy was simple; give the customers what they want, then listen to the cash register's ka-ching." Parks was the proprietor of the Pixie Kitchen, a unique restaurant in what is now Lincoln City, and what the customers wanted was seafood. Parks gave it to them. With its Shell Room bar and a family-friendly atmosphere, the all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant was a coastal landmark from the '50s to the late '70s. Parks eventually opened an amusement park ill-suited to its location in the middle of the Salmon River estuary. Mike Stone, a former journalist for the Newport News-Times, has captured the boom and the bust of the Parks business empire in "Pixies in the Valley: Oregon's Pixie Kitchen & Pixieland."